Jude Jones

Brian G. Henning earned his doctorate in philosophy at Fordham University in New York City. He is Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA. He was awarded the John N. Findlay Book Prize from the Metaphysical Society of America for The Ethics of Creativity.

Henning is coauthor or coeditor of several books, including Genesis, Evolution, and the Search for a Reasoned Faith; Thinking with Whitehead and American Pragmatism; Being in America: Sixty Years of the Metaphysical Society; Beyond Mechanism: Putting Life Back Into Biology; and Beyond Metaphysics? Explorations in Alfred North Whitehead's Late Thought.

Education

• BA, Fordham University
• MA, PhD, Emory University

Research Interests

Metaphysics, especially process philosophy; American philosophy - especially Dewey, Santayana, and James; history of philosophy; ethics; questions of individualism, one and many, monism/pluralism; classical and contemporary naturalism as a viable 20th century metaphysical option; in ethics, questions of agency, axiology, moral "attention" and the interface of metaphysics and ethics.